"An agony of perceivedness"?: gazes and disguises in the works of James Joyce and Cindy Sherman

• Autores: Márcia Lemos
• Localización: Relational designs in literature and the arts: page and stage, canvas and screen / Rui Carvalho Homem (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-90-420-3581-2, págs. 349-360
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • James Joyce's texts and Cindy Sherman's photos have much in common.His work creates 'endlessly inartistic portraits of himself,' constantly interrogating the boundaries between personal and collective history; her work 'creates surrogates' progressively appropriating images from our collective past. If Joyce's texts developed into more voluminous and cumulativle narratives, with the publication of "Ulysses" and "Finegans Wake"; Shennan's photos became increasingly larger, culminating in her 1985 Iife-size prints.

    This essay represents, therefore, an attempt to promote a dialogue betwteen literature and photography through a dialogue between two of their most influential agents: James Joyce and Cindy Sherman. I will focus mainly on Joyce's "Finlnegan Wake" and on a selection of Sherman's photos in order to discuss the construction (and the deconstruction) of masks in both works. I will also consider the perceptions of reader~ and viewers when confronted with these masks.